A memorial in Upton-cum-Chalvey church shows that his mother Mary Sophia died in 1850.
He took part in one of the matches against the English Visiting Cricket XI, for the Geelong and Western District team, in January 1862, keeping wicket.
[6][7] Having made a voyage back to the United Kingdom in 1868, Bonsey retired as police magistrate at Geelong in 1869.
[10] Their son William Bonsey was born in Slough in 1845, and entered St John's College, Cambridge as a pensioner in 1864.
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